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Sep 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

The Kindertransport and the ‘Lost Train’ of 1945: Bergen-Belsen to Tröbitz

On 15th April 1945, Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army. Only days before though between 6th-10th April 1945 3 transports left the concentration camp with around 7000 Jews on board. Some of them were children. In fact, some of these children were former Kindertransportees...

Jonathan Arkush

Sep 17, 2026, 1:27 PM

An Unlikely Yom Kippur

If you are looking for somewhere to spend Yom Kippur, you are unlikely to be thinking of Grimsby. So why does a small but determined band from across the United Kingdom and beyond head there year after year for the holiest day in the Jewish...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:06 AM

Labour’s Faustian pact: Its soul for… well, what exactly?

I would like to return briefly to the outrageous hypocrisy of our government – the UK govt, that is – and in particular the grandstanding and showboating of the Foreign Secretary at the Despatch Box that would have made a circus ringmaster blush. In another...

Sep 9, 2026, 9:16 PM

Where did Mr Ed get West Bank info? Same place West Midlands Police went?

So who are the advisers to our esteemed Foreign Secretary, Ed Milliband. Could they be the same group that advised the West Midlands Police over the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv fixture with such catastrophic consequences for the career of the now former West Midlands Chief...

Sep 9, 2026, 4:29 AM

Kindertransports from Genoa, Italy to the UK

Small Kindertransports consisting of 5-10 mainly German and Austrian Jewish refugee children left Genoa in 1939 and 1940 for the UK. Genoa was a departure point and transit hub for thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, but its Kindertransport history is less well-known. Genoa...

Sep 7, 2026, 6:57 PM

Kindertransport chaperones: Over half of them found refuge and survived

Out of the 107 chaperones I’ve researched so far, some 71 survived. That means that over 66% of the adults, often Jewish adults, who accompanied the Kindertransport children to safety in the UK were saved as a result of this rescue scheme or further emigration...

Sep 2, 2026, 9:00 PM

Time to examine media role in propping up Israel-hate. As well as creating it

A week or so ago, I said in a social-media post that the towering edifice of lies and libels about Israel was collapsing. It certainly should be collapsing given the empirical evidence and irrefutable facts that constantly emerge about the deceptions, illusions and outright lies...

Aug 21, 2026, 12:33 PM

Sometimes, I really wish there were a God

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When I was a kid growing up in London, my favorite TV advert was for Ready Brek, a British breakfast staple not unlike Quaker Instant Oatmeal. I never touched the stuff. No way was I conceding Coco Pops for something even Oliver Twist wouldn’t want...

Aug 12, 2026, 4:37 AM

Emma Mogilensky’s Shoah Found testimony about babies left on the Kindertransport

Testimony is one of the most important resources we have for learning about the Kindertransport. In this blog I want to argue that seeing testimony in relation to newly discovered archival material enhances our understanding of testimony and at the same time the testimony helps...

Aug 7, 2026, 12:58 AM

Book Review: A true story dressed up as a novel

The Dressmaker of Baghdad is based on the true story of the mother of Orna Zaig, published in 2025 in Kindle. Zaig is one of several (mostly female) authors writing in English who have tried to recreate a vanished world constructed from the stories they...

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